READ: Sarah Sanders Tweets ‘Republicans Should Stand Up to Comey and His Tremendous Corruption…The President Did the Country a Service By Firing Him’

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed President Donald Trump did the country a “service” by firing former FBI Director James Comey after Comey slammed the president’s conduct after he appeared before the House Judiciary and House Oversight committees in the panels’ ongoing examination of the FBI and Justice Department’s handling of both the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails and the alleged collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian operatives during the 2016 presidential election.

“So another day of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Steele dossier. This while the President … is lying about the FBI, attacking the FBI and attacking the rule of law in this country. How does that make any sense at all?” Comey told reporters.

“Republicans used to understand that the actions of a president matter,” Comey added. “The words of a president matter, the rule of law matters, and the truth matters. Where are those Republicans today?”

"So another day of Hillary Clinton’s emails and the Steele dossier. This while the President … is lying about the FBI, attacking the FBI and attacking the rule of law in this country. How does that make any sense at all?” -Former FBI Director James Comey https://t.co/ADaa3P7fJopic.twitter.com/tWYNKCHYlR

Sanders, who has long been criticized for serving as a mouthpiece for an administration besieged by near-daily scandals, soon fired back. She suggested Republicans should “stand up” to Comey and “his tremendous corruption.”

Sanders claimed that President Trump “did the country a service by firing him and exposing him for the shameless fraud he is.”

Republicans should stand up to Comey and his tremendous corruption – from the fake Hillary Clinton investigation, to lying and leaking, to FISA abuse, and a list too long to name. The President did the country a service by firing him and exposing him for the shameless fraud he is

The president fired Comey on May 9, 2017, an action which, many legal experts say, constitutes grounds for an investigation of Trump for possible obstruction of justice. A New York Times report the following Monday revealed that Trump asked Comey to halt the criminal investigation into Michael Flynn, his former national security advisor. (Flynn would later plead guilty to lying to federal investigators about his conversations with Sergey Kislyak, the former Russian ambassador to the United States.)

“I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go,” Trump told Comey, according to a memo Comey wrote immediately after the meeting, which took place the day after Flynn resigned. “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.”

Comey wrote the memo detailing his conversation with Trump as part of a paper trail documenting the president’s “improper” efforts to impede the continuing investigation.

Sanders was savaged for her statements.

Fake Hillary investigation ? The same that went on for years & 100’s of hours of testimony including her 11hour testimony? Its not fake because there was no crime discovered !!til this day y’all searching high & low & still can’t find a crime.

Comey being interrogated by the republicans behind closed doors isn’t good enough? This is a democracy. Apparently he’s not allowed to express his own opinion because dear leader doesn’t like it? He can’t fire the entire DOJ. 1st Amendment rights. Rule of law. Resign now.